Try these websites to practice your reading skills.
Into the Book is a reading comprehension program. It provides tools and resources that explore eight
reading strategies for 'making meaning from text.' These are:
Storyline Online has a great collection of videos with well-known actors reading children's fiction
books.
We Give Books has hundreds of e-books available for kids to read. Every time you get to the end
of a book, a real book is donated to charity.
Story Bee contains hundreds of stories for a range of ages (4-18). Told by professional storytellers,
genres include myths, legends, folktales, fairy tales and some original works.
Online Audio Stories has hundreds of classic children's stories. Choose the story you want to read
by genre, theme, author and other choices. Click to play and listen or read along with the story
teller.
International Children's Digital Library is the world's largest online multicultural repository of
children's literature, with 4,469 books in 55 languages.
How about creating your own books. Take a look at these websites to help you.
You can create your own books with Story Jumper. It's an easy seven-step process. You can create
from scratch or use one of several templates and use your own artwork/photos or select from the site's
gallery.
Storybird helps you make, short, art-inspired stories that can be shared, read and printed. You can
even collaborate with others on the same story. Simply add images and text onto pages.
Etherpad allows people to work together in "really real-time!" All you have to do is click 'create' and
provide the URL of your 'pad' to everyone you want to use it. You can then all work on the dame
document simultaneously. And it's super fast.
Try these websites to improve your use of words.
Vocabulary has more than 40,000 questions designed to help you learn words. As you answer, it tracks
your progress and asks harder questions.
Word master is another way to test vocabulary. You're shown a sentence with a word missing. Click
the on-screen keyboard to fill in the blanks. It's against the clock and there are various levels of
difficulty.
Please click on the links below to practice your literacy skills.
Similes Game
Crossword Similes
Super Similes
Nash's Adventures
Flick's Adventures
Sprat's Adventures
Try these websites to practice your reading skills.
reading strategies for 'making meaning from text.' These are:
- Using prior knowledge 2. Making connections,
3. Questioning 4. Visualising5. Inferring 6. Summarizing
7. Evaluating 8. Synthesising
books.
of a book, a real book is donated to charity.
genres include myths, legends, folktales, fairy tales and some original works.
by genre, theme, author and other choices. Click to play and listen or read along with the story
teller.
children's literature, with 4,469 books in 55 languages.
How about creating your own books. Take a look at these websites to help you.
from scratch or use one of several templates and use your own artwork/photos or select from the site's
gallery.
even collaborate with others on the same story. Simply add images and text onto pages.
provide the URL of your 'pad' to everyone you want to use it. You can then all work on the dame
document simultaneously. And it's super fast.
Try these websites to improve your use of words.
your progress and asks harder questions.
the on-screen keyboard to fill in the blanks. It's against the clock and there are various levels of
difficulty.